by sumac | Nov 11, 2016 | Personal Apologies
Hot summer afternoon in North Carolina. Rebecca Landis Hayes went to the grocery store. She spotted a parking space reserved for veterans, and pulled into it. She was just going to run in quickly, and it was hot. So she did. When she came out, there was a note on her...
by sumac | Oct 7, 2013 | Media Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Fox News Network is alternating between interpreting the current government shutdown as a lovely “slimdown” and as President Obama tormenting the people of the United States. They’re not treating it as anything the Republican Party has any responsibility for. In...
by sumac | Jan 11, 2013 | Historical Apologies
Abraham Lincoln wasn’t perfect, knew it, admitted it. Sometimes he went out of his way to apologize for his mistakes. Even when no one was pouting. On July 13, 1863, mid-Civil War, Lincoln sent this letter to General U.S. Grant: My dear General I do not remember...